From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 30 19:13:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA29638 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 19:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au (lynx.its.unimelb.EDU.AU [128.250.20.151]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA29631 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 19:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA07450; Fri, 31 May 1996 12:13:39 +1000 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:13:37 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? In-Reply-To: <199605291750.NAA23605@rk.ios.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Rashid Karimov wrote: > > I added an option "noatime" to mount/fstab and implemented a special > > per-mount flag for this in the kernel. I was only interested in disabling > > the access time; I wanted the inode change time and modify times to still > > work correctly. My application, of course, was wcarchive - a machine with > > millions of files that spends about 1/3-1/2 of all of it's disk I/O just > > updating the access times in the inodes. > > > > -DG > > > > David Greenman > > David, could you submit those patches ? May be we can even add > this as an OPTION to the kernel config file? I second this request. It would be very useful for disks dedicated to WWW servers or WWW proxy servers. danny